Mark F. Carr is theological co-director for the Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University in California.

The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., trains officers for the Navy.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., trains officers for the Army.

The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., trains officers for the Air Force. The academy had been involved in controversy over charges of proselytizing by evangelical Christians, prompting an investigation in 2005.

View an April 4, 2008, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly story about Army chaplain training.

Read a June 25, 2008, New York Times story about allegations of religious pressure at the Army and Navy service academies.

Daniel Smith-Christopher is professor of theological studies and director of peace studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He served for two years in volunteer peace research in Israel/Palestine in the late 1980s. His publications include Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions and Jonah, Jesus and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace […]

Joseph Prabhu is a philosophy professor at California State University, Los Angeles. His interests include comparative religion and social and political theory. He is the author of Liberating Gandhi: Community, Empire and a Culture of Peace.

Michael J. Nojeim is an associate professor of political science at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. His publications include Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance.